Beta readers for a fairy tale? Swap or otherwise.

Sure that'd be great. Here's a quick overview:

Long ago, the moon was an ugly woman who lived down on the earth. After learning magic that allowed her to steal beauty from others she quickly became obsessed with it and became the most beautiful woman on the planet. The stars thought she was divine, so asked her to join them in the sky.

The story takes place centuries later and follows three main characters:

Dial is a princess that is so beautiful that the moon became jealous and sent her slave to try to steal her away as a baby. The slave failed, and Dial has grown up under extreme protection by the king and an ever-decreasing (due to death by the slave) ring of heroes. She has a large desire for adventure and a very small capacity to obtain it due to the ever-present threat of the moon.

Valan is a hero who was taken from the streets at a young age by the king to train and become the best fighter in the world in order to protect the princess. He struggles between a sense of duty to the king and Dial's desire for a friend over a guardian.

The main protagonist is Triv, a bellmaker. He lost his father when he was young to the moon slave for mysterious reasons, and ran abroad for years. He returns to his home as a young man and has since given up the ideas of revenge he had in his youth, and wants to build a new life for himself, but he finds himself entangled in the kingdom's problems through circumstances outside of his control.

The main theme I really try to explore in the story is how our modern society (though this is in a fantasy setting) puts a destructive amount of attention to outward beauty and how it is actually detrimental to the girls in our culture.

I try to shy away from typical fantasy ideas and instead try to find a good middle ground between epic fantasy and fairy tales (like Grimm's), since I loved fairy tales growing up.

If you're at all intersted, I'd love to have you look at it to see what you think. Feel free to be harsh. No offense, but you're a random internet person, and criticism only helps me improve. I'm not overly attached to my writing at all.

If you'd like to take a gander at my draft, give me an email I can send it to. I would prefer to have your comments back in about a month's time, so I can work on the next draft in a timely fashion. If you're not a fan of deadlines, maybe we can work something out, but I'd like to get something out of the beta read too. :P

Thanks for your time!

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